Exotic Flowers and Transformer Robots. Surreal Motifs and Orientalist Patterns. Like Monsters of an Unspoken Past Coming to Life in the Encroaching Space of Digital Totalitarianism.
The architectural exhibition Interbau 1957 in postwar West Berlin embodied the modernist dream of a city of the future - rational, socially progressive, and ideal for living. Today, these ideas are met with criticism, and modernism is often seen as a utopia that failed the test of time.
In his project «Interbau 1957 Reimagined», the artist does not merely document the architecture of Interbau, but transforms it using digital methods of reconfiguration. Buildings deconstruct and reassemble into ornaments, abstract forms, and rhythmic structures. These visual metamorphoses reflect the dual perception of the modernist legacy: on one hand, affirming its vitality; on the other, dismantling the integrity of its original ideas, questioning them, expressing their fragility and fluidity.
Here, the artist steps into the shadow side of avant-garde architectural thought of the mid-20th century - and perhaps of the entire postwar world - also decomposing along with its finest creative ideas. In this way, the project offers not only a visual exploration of architecture but also an artistic reflection on how the verbal utopias of the past continue to mutate within us today.
